Sound of Grace Complex Search

The advanced syntax allows you to put together very specific searches. The following examples illustrate the various options for the advanced search form: 

youth;evangelism This is equivalent to a Boolean AND. It finds all pages that contain both "youth" and "evangelism".

 pastor,preacher This is equivalent to a Boolean OR. It finds all pages that contain either "pastor" or "preacher". 

{authority,inerrancy};{Bible,Scripture} This is a combination of Boolean expressions. It finds all pages that contain either "authority" or "inerrancy" along with either "Bible" or "Scripture". 

{three persons};{Holy Spirit} This finds all pages that contain the phrase "three persons" and the phrase "Holy Spirit". 

reverence;~fear The "~" is equivalent to a Boolean NOT. This request finds all pages that contain "reverence" but not "fear". 

theolog# This finds all pages that contain a word beginning with "theolog". "#" serves as a wildcard that represents any number of characters, including 0 characters. 

The Geneva advanced search has several additional search options:

Case sensitivity The default is a case-insensitive search, but case sensitivity can be forced by checking the box. 

Partial matches Partial matches are matches on portions of words. For example, if the search string is "millenni", it will have a partial match with "premillennial", "amillennial", and "millennium". 

Misspellings allowed The search can be set to match misspelled words with a specified maximum number of spelling errors allowed. Alternatively, it can be used to match correctly spelled words to your misspelled search terms! :-)

Max number of files returned This limits the number of files that can be returned in a single search. If more than the max number are found, a message is printed at the end to let you know that the maximum number was exceeded.

 Max number of matches per file returned This limits the number of lines per file that can be returned in a single search. If more than the max number are found, a message is printed at the end to let you know that the maximum number was exceeded. 

Note: The special symbols `^' match the beginning of a line and `$' the end of a line. The following special characters ( `$', `^', `*', `[', `^', `|', `(', `)', `!', and `\' ) and the following metacharacters are special to Geneva: `;', `,', `#', `<', `>', `-', and `.'. They should be preceded by `\' if they are to be matched as regular characters. For example, \^abc\ corresponds to the string ^abc\, whereas ^abc corresponds to the string abc at the beginning of a line.